{"id":178178,"date":"2022-11-08T13:56:14","date_gmt":"2022-11-08T13:56:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/legalvision.co.uk\/?p=178178"},"modified":"2022-11-14T06:59:29","modified_gmt":"2022-11-14T06:59:29","slug":"protect-intellectual-property","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/legalvision.co.uk\/intellectual-property\/protect-intellectual-property\/","title":{"rendered":"I&#8217;m a Designer. How Can I Protect My Intellectual Property?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">If you are a designer or a design business in England, you will need to know how to protect your intellectual property, which is your designs, ideas and products. You need to protect your intellectual property against competitors in order to avoid other companies copying your brand designs. This article will discuss how you can protect your intellectual property through design rights and copyright. These protect your intellectual property in different but equally important ways.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Design Rights<\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/legalvision.co.uk\/intellectual-property\/what-are-design-rights\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Design rights<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> are focused on the visual appearance of your product or item. Your product&#8217;s appearance is subject to design rights in terms of its:<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">lines;<\/span><\/li><li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">shape;<\/span><\/li><li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">texture;<\/span><\/li><li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">colour;<\/span><\/li><li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">materials; and<\/span><\/li><li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">configuration or construction.<\/span><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">&nbsp;Design rights are important because they:<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">deter competitors from copying your designs;<\/span><\/li><li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">provide you with legal recourse if a competitor infringes your rights; and<\/span><\/li><li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">provide you with exclusivity for your creations.<\/span><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Unregistered Design Rights<\/span><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Unregistered design rights are automatic design rights attached to a product\u2019s visual appearance. They are not registered with <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/government\/organisations\/intellectual-property-office\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">the Intellectual Property Office<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> and, therefore, have less legal protection.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Unregistered designs present a more challenging task in bringing infringement proceedings against someone who copies your product. This is because you will have to prove the date you created the design and that you alone created it. To do this, you will therefore need evidence such as:<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">original, dated drawings;<\/span><\/li><li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">proof you created the product; and&nbsp;<\/span><\/li><li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">dated photographs.<\/span><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">It is also advisable that an intellectual property professional holds these to ensure correct formalities. Unregistered design rights are riskier for designers to rely upon due to the evidential burden if a competitor infringes on your rights. Registering your design rights to keep the process straightforward if someone attempts to copy your product is much more advisable.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Registered Design Rights<\/span><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The most crucial difference between unregistered and registered designs is that it is easier to bring infringement proceedings against someone when your design is registered. This is because it is much more straightforward to establish:<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">who owns the design;<\/span><\/li><li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">when you created it; and<\/span><\/li><li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">when the design was registered.<\/span><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Your intellectual property rights are easily enforceable if you register your design with the Intellectual Property Office for 25 years. However, you will need to renew them every five years to preserve your legal protections.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">&nbsp;<\/span>    <div class=\"my-7 lg:my-10 border-y-2 border-gray-100 py-7 lg:py-10 flex flex-col sm:flex-row items-start gap-10\">\n                    <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"w-52 mx-auto my-0! rounded\" src=\"https:\/\/img.legalvision.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2022\/09\/06164254\/uk-startup-manual-290x410-1.jpg\" alt=\"Front page of publication\"\n                 loading=\"lazy\" width=\"208\" height=\"298\">\n                <section>\n            <div class=\"text-2xl font-bold\">UK Startup Manual<\/div>\n            <div class=\"body-text\">\n                <p>LegalVision&#8217;s Startup Manual is essential reading material for any startup founder looking to launch and grow a successful startup.<\/p>\n            <\/div>\n            \n\n<a href=\"https:\/\/go.legalvision.co.uk\/uk-startup-manual.html\" class=\" block px-5 py-3.5 max-w-fit bg-orange button__hover transition rounded text-white font-bold text-lg no-underline uppercase leading-tight text-center\" target=\"\" rel=\"\">Download Now<\/a>        <\/section>\n    <\/div>\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Copyright<\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Copyright is a legal right that stops other businesses from using your creative work without consent. It is an automatic right once you have created things like:<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">original literary works;<\/span><\/li><li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">software;<\/span><\/li><li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">databases; and<\/span><\/li><li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">music recordings.<\/span><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Once you have created a new work, you can use the \u00a9 symbol, which refers to copyright. This notifies anyone who sees the symbol that your work is subject to copyright and therefore protected from use without consent. As a designer, this means that any documentation you have drafted relating to your designs will be protected, and others will be unable to:<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">copy your designs;<\/span><\/li><li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">distribute copies of your designs; or<\/span><\/li><li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">sell any of your designs.<\/span><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">You can, however, choose to license, sell or transfer your copyright if you wish. If you own the copyright of any creative work, it is up to you how you use it. Therefore, you can monetise your copyright by licensing the use of your work in certain aspects, or you can sell it to another business which then transfers the ownership of the work.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">How Copyright Helps Designers<\/span><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/legalvision.co.uk\/intellectual-property\/design-rights-vs-copyright\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Copyright can help designers<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> like you to protect documentation that details your design work or any artistic or literary work that exists as part of the completed design.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The paperwork is written up and drafted before a design is created automatically. This means that design rights and copyright have a slight overlap with one another as they are often related to the same design. 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